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<blockquote data-quote="Dev" data-source="post: 260788" data-attributes="member: 6786"><p>Hi guys,</p><p></p><p>I've been a lurker here for a while, looking at this list whenever I'm thinking of buying another TPA table, and I haven't voted as yet. I was intrigued by Rittless' list and comments and wanted to hear how he and other people here who feel strongly that the list is unkind to simpler / older / Gottlieb tables would defend some of the lower rated tables on this list. </p><p></p><p>I'm all for different tastes and aesthetics, but I don't believe in awarding points for historical significance and I think a good table should pretty much have something for everyone (i.e. I don't buy the snob defense: if you were better at pinball, you would be able to appreciate it). </p><p></p><p>So I'd be curious to hear a defense of a table like Firepower, for example. I really wanted to like this table, because of its art style and its simplicity. But if I'm being honest about my play experience, I don't think it compares very favorably with newer tables. It seems like the ball drains out an awful lot. It either comes tearing down the middle so it's almost impossible to deter (nudging is overly necessary here, as is luck, it seems to me), or it bounces off a bumber and into an outlane. I just wasn't feeling much flow from the so-called "King of Flow" here. I could never get into any kind of rhythm and games were uniformly short, and usually not because of me, I felt. </p><p></p><p>But, like I said, I'm actually keen to have my thinking turned inside out, if only to have more motivation to go back to some of these tables, and I'd like to hear from people who love them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dev, post: 260788, member: 6786"] Hi guys, I've been a lurker here for a while, looking at this list whenever I'm thinking of buying another TPA table, and I haven't voted as yet. I was intrigued by Rittless' list and comments and wanted to hear how he and other people here who feel strongly that the list is unkind to simpler / older / Gottlieb tables would defend some of the lower rated tables on this list. I'm all for different tastes and aesthetics, but I don't believe in awarding points for historical significance and I think a good table should pretty much have something for everyone (i.e. I don't buy the snob defense: if you were better at pinball, you would be able to appreciate it). So I'd be curious to hear a defense of a table like Firepower, for example. I really wanted to like this table, because of its art style and its simplicity. But if I'm being honest about my play experience, I don't think it compares very favorably with newer tables. It seems like the ball drains out an awful lot. It either comes tearing down the middle so it's almost impossible to deter (nudging is overly necessary here, as is luck, it seems to me), or it bounces off a bumber and into an outlane. I just wasn't feeling much flow from the so-called "King of Flow" here. I could never get into any kind of rhythm and games were uniformly short, and usually not because of me, I felt. But, like I said, I'm actually keen to have my thinking turned inside out, if only to have more motivation to go back to some of these tables, and I'd like to hear from people who love them. [/QUOTE]
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